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Can also see that working. Knight has been quiet recently, Sykes and Twine behind the striker may be exciting too.

To play devil’s advocate, I think the back 3 suits Tanner very well, I’d be curious to see if it would work better with Skyes in front of him. I also like the diagonal ball out to Pring pushing up high.

Does he have an option? I thought we usually add a year option in with most new deals

It was a motor vehicle, not a horse nicknamed “Lorry”

Curious to see what happens with the team now he is back. I, like most, thought he would eventually replace Tanner, but I think we have looked far better going forward with 5 at the back in these two cup matches (Bell was also sharp at wing back first leg). I now think that we may stick with the back 5 and play both Tanner and McRorie

Terrific as a right centre half, plays to all of this strengths. I can see us going to a 3 a lot more now with McCrorie fit.

Did anyone tell West Ham that the match didn’t get moved?

2-1 Conway and Knight COYR!!

Can’t wait then

A front 4 of Sykes, Twine, Mehmeti and Conway excites me, although I can’t see Knight being dropped back into a 2. Has he previously been played in such a system before?

£2.5 million seems very sensible to me if true, £5 million seemed far too much. Although we don’t know what the loan fee is.

Nobody is denying the fact we need to invest in the squad, I think most are doubting the valuation on this lad.

Whereas this mentality saw us almost failing FFP just a couple of years ago!

Joe Williams in training!

But is he better at free kicks than Joe Williams?!

Not sure if I agree if Burnley are looking to recoup that £4million (or even more as mentioned before)

Could it be that Hull have said to Burnley that they do not want to build a team around Twine anymore and have thus replaced him this window, so Burnley have said that’s fine we can loan him out elsewhere as long as someone else wants to pick up the same deal? Burnley want to try and get as much value back on their £4 million investment on Twine and not being favour at Hull will only decrease his value

Loan fee + Wages

I’m not convinced with the figures being quoted!

It’s only a temporary upgrade to the squad though if there is no option to buy.

Our season is going nowhere. Wouldn’t we be better investing in the summer than spending enormous loan fees now?

I would be more than happy for them to keep the club if we had a structure/DOF who has good experience of making good footballing decision. For all their financial support, the decision making has not been their strong point. I am 27, in my time supporting City we have gone for a number of “manager” types that had provided success in achieving what they were brought in to do, namely Cotteriil and Pearson, and then not backed them and replaced them with a “Head Coach” type when they have achieved that. I have no problems with the Head Coach style of set-up, but I believe it needs time and the right structure to work, and it has clearly not been set-up correctly in previous occasions. FWIW I don’t think Manning is an awful appointment, but once again I don’t think the decision-making process has been well thought out. We have come of our financial issues, but now we have players such as James, Wells and to a degree Weimann, who played well under Pearson, but now do not fit the style of Manning and could now almost be put in a “deadwood” category. Yet again we are waiting until the end of the season to get rid of players and reinvest. Again, I would be happy to keep the Lansdowns if they were not involved in footballing decision (particularly regarding hiring and firing of managers), but I don’t see that changing, and I could quite easily see the same cycle of the past decade reoccurring where we tear it up and hire another “manager” in the next couple of years to avoid a crisis. So for that reason I voted for yes.

Couldn’t agree with this more. I listen to both as often you end up with a more balanced view by listening to the two. And it is great that you have people taking the time to create these podcasts, and certainly helps for the commutes. However, it is excruciating how often everyone shouts over each other on FBC, and can sometimes make it a hard listen. Let the speaker talk and when your point is finished let the host throw it to the next person. At points of the last one all 3 speakers were talking at the same time, the host is trying to ask one speaker something and Ian is still making his point or recommences his point halfway through the hosts next question. I appreciate that sometime interjection is valued but it’s a podcast, not a business meeting. It could easily be a better listen with the suggestions listed above. OSIB had the balance pretty perfect imo. Hopefully this doesn’t come across too critical because I do mostly enjoy the content put out!

I agree Wells is looking past it and will probably be gone in the summer. I think Conway has the quality but unfortunately nobody on the pitch is close enough to him.

So do you think if we brought a goal scorer in we would start scoring goals? I would argue that we need to focus on our chance creation more. No point bringing another number 9 in to also have no service.